In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

~ Malcolm X

Malcolm X Success Time Failure

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

~ Skylar Grey

Skylar Grey Life Failure Struggle

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Life Failure Fear

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

~ Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel Failure Home You Can Do It

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

~ Suze Orman

Suze Orman Failure Good Financial

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

~ Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne Life Failure You

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

~ Donald Trump

Donald Trump Failure Losing Battle

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

~ Henry Knox

Henry Knox Failure Done Civil War

War is failure of diplomacy.

~ John Dingell

John Dingell Failure Diplomacy

War remains the decisive human failure.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith Failure Human Decisive

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

~ Charles Inglis

Charles Inglis Failure Rebellion Nation

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

~ Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers Failure Imagination Moral

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

~ Henry Miller

Henry Miller Work Failure Man

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

~ Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian Failure Today Violence

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

~ Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges Failure Next Leaves

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

~ Tim Harford

Tim Harford Time Failure Good

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

~ Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell Life Time Failure

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

~ Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Judd Success Music Failure

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

~ Tadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai Success Time Failure

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

~ Cat Cora

Cat Cora Wisdom Failure Mistakes

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

~ Carol Alt

Carol Alt Failure Goal Trying

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Failure Women Past

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

~ Zach Wamp

Zach Wamp Failure Government Control

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

~ Earl Warren

Earl Warren Time Failure Paradox

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

~ Michael Malone

Michael Malone Failure America Greatest

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

~ Alan Price

Alan Price Failure You Orphan

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot Failure His Concern